Pacific Biosciences Appoints Jonas Korlach, Ph.D. Chief Scientific Officer

MENLO PARK, Calif., July 16, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS High Resolution Genetic Analyzer, today announced the appointment of Jonas Korlach, Ph.D., as Chief Scientific Officer. PacBio's previous CSO, Eric Schadt, Ph.D., will remain a key scientific advisor to the company in addition to his primary role as Professor and Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Director of the Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.